The American exopolitical activist Stephen Bassett received the Researcher of the year-award at the International UFO Congress in Februar 2014. Bassett has since 1996 pressured the US government to lift what he calls the Truth Embargo concerning the extraterrestrial presence on Earth. One of Bassett's major accomplishments has been The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure in Washington DC in April/May 2013. Watch piece from Open Minds TV below.